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13.4.04
Your favourite ABBA tracks: numbers 11-15

#11 Thank You For The Music
On ‘ABBA – The Album’ from February 1978, the group ended with three songs grouped together under the title “The Girl With The Golden Hair – 3 scenes from a mini-musical”. ‘Thank You For The Music’ was the first of those tracks, and it became arguably the best known ABBA track never to be released as a single in the UK. It held that honour for nearly six years, before CBS decided to release it as what turned out to be their farewell single in November 1983, a year after their last original single, ‘Under Attack’. (Trivial fact: all of ABBA’s other hits had been on Epic.) Sadly, nobody cared about ABBA by this point and it dribbled to a mere #33. The song's main chart triumph came 16 years later, a mere 21 years after its first appearance, as part of the Brits-inspired ‘Thank ABBA For The Music’ EP, which made #4 in 1999 for Steps and their cohorts.

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